In Delegation Watch, Samantha Levine reports that Republicans fared poorly in the “National Hispanic Leadership Agenda’s latest congressional scorecard, which looked at how lawmakers voted on issues that affect Hispanics.” One look at the press
The Houston-area blogosphere currently is engaged in an interesting, frank discussion of mass transit and light rail in the city. Tory Gattis got the latest round going with his post, A hypothesis on the deeper
After several weeks of stale Sunday editorial page content, James Howard Gibbons finally put together a Sunday page that is almost entirely fresh, and even contains a fair number of op-eds of local interest. Apparently,
The Chronicle‘s Anne Marie Kilday reported Friday on the graduation of 63 new officers from the Houston Police Academy: After 26 weeks of intensive training, 63 new police officers were sworn in at graduation ceremonies
Julie Mason’s White House Watch explores the nail-biting question of whether or not President Bush gave the press corps “the finger”: A second term may produce a certain nonchalance on the part of the incumbent,
The Chronicle editorial idealists think more Houstonians need to switch electricity providers: [O]ne factor keeping electricity rates in Texas higher than they need to be is the reluctance of consumers to shop around for the
We’ve long been pushing for streamed audio/video of Chronicle interviews with newsmakers. Reading excerpts of Matt Stiles interviewing Republican National Committee head Ken Mehlman and Democratic National Committee head Howard Dean is almost enough to
One of the nice parts of HISD’s new budget is the expanded pre-K program. We were happy to see local media cover it last week: For the first time, HISD says it will be able
How much longer can Reps. Tom DeLay and John Culberson remain Chronicle and Metro “bad guys” with news like this: Metro says it got all it wanted and then some in a transportation bill Congress
The Houston Zoo has a new feature for children — a water playground: The Houston Zoo will debut its latest attraction for visitors on Saturday — a water playground at the McGovern Children’s Zoo designed